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Show HN: Think Turing Complete, but you write the circuits in TypeScript (WIP)

22 points by charlesfrisbee 1mo ago

emil-lp 28d ago
What's with the title? It's a Typescript-to-circuit converter/transpiler/compiler. Why not just "Build a circuit in Typescript"?
- rafinha 27d ago
  I think the "Turing Complete" part is about the "It has a campaign its not just a ts-to-circuit compiler"
  - charlesfrisbee 25d ago
    Yea exactly. I made the campaign using the open source libs to try to get people using it creatively/in a somewhat familiar setting. Appreciate you having taken a look
- schubart 27d ago
  I think “Turing Complete” here refers to a game about making circuits: https://turingcomplete.game/ https://turingcomplete.game/
  - drob518 27d ago
    Thank you. That was lost on me, too.
  - pdpi 27d ago
    Great game, too, with some truly surprising features (like Verilog export)
    - zamadatix 27d ago
      For those who may have taken a leak at the game in the past: The recent update from this summer was a ground up engine rewrite with all sorts of features like this.
- charlesfrisbee 25d ago
  Good feedback. I tried a similar title on a previous post and got no traction so I tried to contextualise by relating it to Turing Complete. Didn't hit
esperent 27d ago
Took me ages of tapping around before I hit a page that obtusely says "NAND needs a desktop" and then another ten seconds before I realized that was telling me I'm blocked on mobile. If you're going to block mobile devices, make it upfront and obvious because 80% of people who land on your site will probably be on one.
- xdavidliu 27d ago
  the "snappy quick-witted style" of this along with "think X but with Y" makes me think this is the type of prose that gets rated higher in post-training RL or something and yet annoys the heck out of actual readers
  - charlesfrisbee 25d ago
    That's funny I genuinely could not think of another way to try an engage the people who play Turing Complete on Steam so I just gave this a whirl. In my head everyone on hn has played it but clearly not
- charlesfrisbee 25d ago
  Ah yeah I guess the map page is not gated thanks for pointing that out
rsrsrs86 27d ago
Slop….

What's with the title? It's a Typescript-to-circuit converter/transpiler/compiler. Why not just "Build a circuit in Typescript"?

rafinha 27d ago
I think the "Turing Complete" part is about the "It has a campaign its not just a ts-to-circuit compiler"
- charlesfrisbee 25d ago
  Yea exactly. I made the campaign using the open source libs to try to get people using it creatively/in a somewhat familiar setting. Appreciate you having taken a look
schubart 27d ago
I think “Turing Complete” here refers to a game about making circuits: https://turingcomplete.game/ https://turingcomplete.game/
- drob518 27d ago
  Thank you. That was lost on me, too.
- pdpi 27d ago
  Great game, too, with some truly surprising features (like Verilog export)
  - zamadatix 27d ago
    For those who may have taken a leak at the game in the past: The recent update from this summer was a ground up engine rewrite with all sorts of features like this.
charlesfrisbee 25d ago
Good feedback. I tried a similar title on a previous post and got no traction so I tried to contextualise by relating it to Turing Complete. Didn't hit

esperent 27d ago

Took me ages of tapping around before I hit a page that obtusely says "NAND needs a desktop" and then another ten seconds before I realized that was telling me I'm blocked on mobile. If you're going to block mobile devices, make it upfront and obvious because 80% of people who land on your site will probably be on one.

xdavidliu 27d ago
the "snappy quick-witted style" of this along with "think X but with Y" makes me think this is the type of prose that gets rated higher in post-training RL or something and yet annoys the heck out of actual readers
- charlesfrisbee 25d ago
  That's funny I genuinely could not think of another way to try an engage the people who play Turing Complete on Steam so I just gave this a whirl. In my head everyone on hn has played it but clearly not
charlesfrisbee 25d ago
Ah yeah I guess the map page is not gated thanks for pointing that out

rsrsrs86 27d ago

Slop….